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Scape @ Sat Jan 08, 2022 5:12 pm
Scape @ Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:54 pm
bootlegga @ Fri Jan 14, 2022 4:52 pm
This is too interesting not to post...
Scape @ Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:30 am
raydan @ Wed Jan 26, 2022 5:28 pm
I'm trying to find information on a medallion I have, probably from my dad. Wondering if anybody here has any hints.
It's round and seems to be made out of pewter. On one side there's an idolized carving of a woman with a shovel. On the other side, the words...
ORDER OF THE SHOVEL
SILVER
CAPE SCOTT WIVES
WINTEX 61
A Google search gave me this...
https://navalandmilitarymuseum.org/wp-c ... n-1961.pdf
DrCaleb @ Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:55 am
raydan raydan:
I'm trying to find information on a medallion I have, probably from my dad. Wondering if anybody here has any hints.
It's round and seems to be made out of pewter. On one side there's an idolized carving of a woman with a shovel. On the other side, the words...
ORDER OF THE SHOVEL
SILVER
CAPE SCOTT WIVES
WINTEX 61
A Google search gave me this...
https://navalandmilitarymuseum.org/wp-c ... n-1961.pdf
It's round and seems to be made out of pewter. On one side there's an idolized carving of a woman with a shovel. On the other side, the words...
ORDER OF THE SHOVEL
SILVER
CAPE SCOTT WIVES
WINTEX 61
A Google search gave me this...
https://navalandmilitarymuseum.org/wp-c ... n-1961.pdf
The only reference I can find in that document is: (page 122)
$1:
At the end of the 1960 exercises in Bermuda, Cape Scott personnel struck a medal, "The Order of the Snow Shovel", for presentation to wives in home port who had to cope with record snowfalls while their husbands were serving from mid-January to late March in a far more benevolent clime.
(My cousin was born at CFS Bermuda.
)It sounds like "The Order of the Shovel" is a medal that was struck by the soldiers to commemorate something they went through.
raydan @ Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:32 am
Thanks, I'll have to go through that document to see if something's familiar.
Scape @ Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:55 pm
Scape @ Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:19 pm
rickc @ Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:31 pm
This is a pretty cool video if you are into military aviation.
Scape @ Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:11 pm
raydan @ Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:06 am
I like this because of the "Alt-Right" part.
Scape @ Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:52 pm
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